I’m an IT professional living in sunny St. Pete, FL. My specialty/focus is PeopleSoft system/application/database administration and development, but I’m also a server admin (Linux and Windows, on-prem and in the cloud), worked with networking gear, managed mobile devices, and even provided general IT support at work and for friends and family (i.e., being Nick Burns 😉 ) . I love technology, gadgets, and anything having to do with computers. When I’m not tinkering with a piece of equipment, tweaking configurations, writing code, or building classic computer kits, I enjoy spending time with my family, reading, watching TV, and enjoying the Florida outdoors.
In *nix-land, ‘chmod 644’ means “world readable.” I have no delusions of grandeur that the “world” is reading this, but it’s an accurate description of a blog’s potential audience thanks to the web. How do you pronounce it? Personally, I say “sh-mod” but as is typical of the web, there are several schools of thought on this. Say it however you want! [uninteresting side-note: the initials of World Readable also happen to correspond with my online persona, WindRacer.]
Has anything you’ve read on “chmod 644” been helpful? Enlightening? Life changing? (OK, probably not that last one) but to show your appreciation you can drop some change in my virtual tip jars through PayPal or Venmo. Or:
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